Newsarama has a story up about the new Captain America coming out this week (there's spoilers if you follow the links there).
You know, as fond as I am of this title and as closely as I follow it, it really didn't occur to me that there would be anything all that newsworthy about there being a new Cap. I suppose I'm glad that I get my comics by mail, so I should (eventually--too late for this month's box) be sure to get my copy.
Although I'm not sure that comics in the news always means a run on the comic shops by non-comic readers. It did with the death of Cap, I know. Did it happen with the Spider-marriage thing? I don't recall seeing the same sort of complaints with regard to that, but then it wasn't a news story I would have paid particular attention to.
I mean...I can see why non-comic readers care when an iconic character (like Cap or Superman) dies. And not only because they may not realize that no one ever really dies in comics. (Wish I lived in a world like that.) They sort of know who it is, if only because they once owned Underoos with his picture on them. And Spider-Man is a great big movie franchise that features Mary Jane as a major character, so I can see the interest there.
But Cap, fond as I am of him, hasn't really had much of a media presence outside of comics. He has had, for years, a symbolic significance that has had little to do with the character itself. People know who he is in the sense that they recognize the costume and assume there's something vaguely patriotic about him, but I don't think they know much about his backstory, not the way they do with Superman or Batman or Spider-Man. So if there's a new Cap who happens to be a character from the original's past? Does the average non-comic fan even know Cap had a sidekick? It just doesn't strike me that this would be of nearly as much interest as the earlier Cap story. But I guess we will see.
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